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factory town in eastern china makes half of all of the christmas decorations sold around the world. but the ongoing global financial crisis means foreign buyers are changing their habits. of course, taller, factor trees are more expensive, so this year, they say they have noticed a jump in orders for shorter, thinner trees, as europe and america have themselves a slightly more frugal christmas. across the industry, sales are expected to fall 15% compared with last year, so the businesses that are doing best are the ones that can adapted to the new reality. this luxury plastic tree used to be popular, but this year, this factory boss tells me the thinner trees account to a to two-thirds of sales to his european customers. it is not just trees. some factories report that foreign customers are buying smaller bobbles, too. amid the gloom, the chinese christmas factories are looking for sales in a surprising place, the domestic market. more and more people are following christmas traditions and others. this man tells me, "i want to set up my own christmas decorations store one day." as e
factory town in eastern china makes half of all of the christmas decorations sold around the world. but the ongoing global financial crisis means foreign buyers are changing their habits. of course, taller, factor trees are more expensive, so this year, they say they have noticed a jump in orders for shorter, thinner trees, as europe and america have themselves a slightly more frugal christmas. across the industry, sales are expected to fall 15% compared with last year, so the businesses that...
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Dec 13, 2012
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that tunnel connects china town and russian hill. it has a 35-mile an hour speed limit. san francisco supervisor said that the police chief told him police are investigating the video. >> i think no mat wore it is its offensive, it violates public safety. >> reporter: the officer involvede mailed us to tell his side of the story and he said he wasn't driving 100 miles an hour and that he was not drunk. he said my biggest mistake was putting this video on facebook. this was meant to be between friends, i find it upsetting that someone would put the time and energy into finding a three month old innocent video and alert the media to its presence, drawing a line from innocent fun to police misconduct. that posting of that video has been removed and apparently a police investigation now underway. >> thank you. time is now 7:33. police in san leandro searching for the man who stole a truck and then crashed into a fence. it was stolen from the sheet worker's union building last night about 8:15. a gps system in the truck helped the police find it. it was found crashed into a f
that tunnel connects china town and russian hill. it has a 35-mile an hour speed limit. san francisco supervisor said that the police chief told him police are investigating the video. >> i think no mat wore it is its offensive, it violates public safety. >> reporter: the officer involvede mailed us to tell his side of the story and he said he wasn't driving 100 miles an hour and that he was not drunk. he said my biggest mistake was putting this video on facebook. this was meant to...
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Dec 7, 2012
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. >> [inaudible] >> -- china's aircraft carrier, because in this town it's a sign of, you know, inevitable con conflict -- [inaudible] not to worry about. should americans worry about this thing? >> well, you know, my assessment is that if i were china and i was in the economic position that china's in and i was in a position of where i have to look after my global security interests, i would consider building an aircraft carrier. and i might consider building several aircraft carriers. so the real question is whether we should be concerned with them or not. like any other country that builds aircraft carriers is whether or not those types of platforms will be successfully integrated into a global security environment that's a peaceful one. and they have a role in maintaining the peaceful global security environment. if the issue is that they're not part of that global security environment, then i think we have to be concerned about that. >> so -- [inaudible] >> well, i think we're, we're hopeful that they're part of the security environment, and we're doing everything we can possible with
. >> [inaudible] >> -- china's aircraft carrier, because in this town it's a sign of, you know, inevitable con conflict -- [inaudible] not to worry about. should americans worry about this thing? >> well, you know, my assessment is that if i were china and i was in the economic position that china's in and i was in a position of where i have to look after my global security interests, i would consider building an aircraft carrier. and i might consider building several aircraft...
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Dec 8, 2012
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assess china's aircraft carrier because this this town we hear it's a sign of, you know, inevitable conflict, or rickety soviet bucket not to worry about it. should americans worry about this thing? >> well, you know, my assessment is if i were china, and i was in the economic position that china's in, and i was in a position of where i have to look after my global security interests, i would consider building an aircraft carrier, and i might consider building several aircraft carriers so the real question is whether we should be concerned with them or not, like any other country that builds aircraft carriers is whether or not those types of platforms will be successfully integrated into a global security environment that's a peaceful one. they have a role in maintaining the peaceful, global security environment. if the issue is that they are not part of that global security environment, then i think we have to be concerned about it. >> [inaudible] >> i think we're hopeful they are part of the environment, and we are doing everything possible to bring them into the security environment in th
assess china's aircraft carrier because this this town we hear it's a sign of, you know, inevitable conflict, or rickety soviet bucket not to worry about it. should americans worry about this thing? >> well, you know, my assessment is if i were china, and i was in the economic position that china's in, and i was in a position of where i have to look after my global security interests, i would consider building an aircraft carrier, and i might consider building several aircraft carriers so...
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Dec 19, 2012
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all the members of the town are very concerned. just within the last couple of weeks, we have undergone and seen political events focusing on states of china. obviously, the reelection of president obama here, and the announcement and the unveiling of a new group of leaders in china. both aspects bring about continuity and change. we are going to have a secretary of state. if you believe the press reports, it will be senator john kerry as secretary of state. but the thing i want to impress upon is that there will be continuity in the u.s. and china relationship. for quite some time, the leaders of both countries have been committed to greater engagement with each other. really working very hard at developing a constructive, mutually beneficial relationship. one with operation. the reason is that so much of the world's economy is in the asia pacific arena. almost 60% of the world's gdp is in the asia pacific region. we are so economically intertwined at two countries. china is america's number two exporting destination. number one o
all the members of the town are very concerned. just within the last couple of weeks, we have undergone and seen political events focusing on states of china. obviously, the reelection of president obama here, and the announcement and the unveiling of a new group of leaders in china. both aspects bring about continuity and change. we are going to have a secretary of state. if you believe the press reports, it will be senator john kerry as secretary of state. but the thing i want to impress upon...
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Dec 9, 2012
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we're seeing more rural migration to the towns and stilts and that is limitless labor supply will there are no unions people have to deal with. unions here in the united states are still worried that they are going to lose go all the pension benefits they negotiated before but jobs are going over there because employers don't have to deal with what they have over here. >> gregg: how do we combat that. that is the real issue. tim cook is the new ceo of apple is shifting some chinese jobs of apple back to the united states, but he is doing it out of patriotism? >> i don't think he you would have seen that with steve jobs. >> gregg: he told president obama in the last meeting, those chinese jobs, they aren't coming back. >> he did it the way to be a good businessman. >> gregg: with rising trade influence, china will also have increasing political influence, as well? >> absolutely. >> gregg: brenda, good to see you. catch her on "bulls and bears" every saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> heather: this month, marks a special anniversary, the last time a man walked on the moon, 40 year
we're seeing more rural migration to the towns and stilts and that is limitless labor supply will there are no unions people have to deal with. unions here in the united states are still worried that they are going to lose go all the pension benefits they negotiated before but jobs are going over there because employers don't have to deal with what they have over here. >> gregg: how do we combat that. that is the real issue. tim cook is the new ceo of apple is shifting some chinese jobs...